According to the 1900 Bradley County census, Lee was born in North Carolina as were both parents. He was a blacksmith by trade. His wife Barsha C. Toomey was born in Tennessee, but both her parents were born in North Carolina.
Barsha died in 1909 in Polk County, and January the 18th 1911, Lee married the widowed Rebecca Bates Blackwell. They had only been married for 5 months when he died 29th July 1911 of 'jaunders' while they were living in what was then called the 'Poor House' usually operated in a private home, but subsidized by the local government.
This is a mystery as to why Lee's children did not support him, for Barsha had written a will in 1908, probated after her passing in 1909, that divides fifteen acres of land, livestock, and household items among her children, Louisa Massey, Cleo Toomey, and her husband, Lee.
Note: Bio and links by Polk County Historian, Marian Bailey Presswood.
Barsha died in 1909 in Polk County, and January the 18th 1911, Lee married the widowed Rebecca Bates Blackwell. They had only been married for 5 months when he died 29th July 1911 of 'jaunders' while they were living in what was then called the 'Poor House' usually operated in a private home, but subsidized by the local government.
This is a mystery as to why Lee's children did not support him, for Barsha had written a will in 1908, probated after her passing in 1909, that divides fifteen acres of land, livestock, and household items among her children, Louisa Massey, Cleo Toomey, and her husband, Lee.
Note: Bio and links by Polk County Historian, Marian Bailey Presswood.
According to the 1900 Bradley County census, Lee was born in North Carolina as were both parents. He was a blacksmith by trade. His wife Barsha C. Toomey was born in Tennessee, but both her parents were born in North Carolina.
Barsha died in 1909 in Polk County, and January the 18th 1911, Lee married the widowed Rebecca Bates Blackwell. They had only been married for 5 months when he died 29th July 1911 of 'jaunders' while they were living in what was then called the 'Poor House' usually operated in a private home, but subsidized by the local government.
This is a mystery as to why Lee's children did not support him, for Barsha had written a will in 1908, probated after her passing in 1909, that divides fifteen acres of land, livestock, and household items among her children, Louisa Massey, Cleo Toomey, and her husband, Lee.
Note: Bio and links by Polk County Historian, Marian Bailey Presswood.
Barsha died in 1909 in Polk County, and January the 18th 1911, Lee married the widowed Rebecca Bates Blackwell. They had only been married for 5 months when he died 29th July 1911 of 'jaunders' while they were living in what was then called the 'Poor House' usually operated in a private home, but subsidized by the local government.
This is a mystery as to why Lee's children did not support him, for Barsha had written a will in 1908, probated after her passing in 1909, that divides fifteen acres of land, livestock, and household items among her children, Louisa Massey, Cleo Toomey, and her husband, Lee.
Note: Bio and links by Polk County Historian, Marian Bailey Presswood.
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